A good day for shopping. I can't believe the luck I had. First I got some excellent stocking stuffers for my girl, which I can't really tell about until after Xmas, since she's one of two people I know that read this blog.

Then I got last year's baseball cards for only $1.50 a pack. I got 3 packs and I got Derek Lowe and a Topps All World Team Nomar Garciaparra! Go Sox!


Then I went to 4 thrift stores in Allston. One (ferget what it's called) - no 8-tracks. Two (Urban Renewals) - no 8-tracks. Three (Amvets) - one 8-track: El Chicano - Revolucion. 49cents. Including Don't Put Me Down (If I'm Brown) Awesome. Four (Hadassah) - no 8-tracks, but they did have 10 old Yiddish books published in New York and Philadelphia in the 1910s which they sold me for $1 each! Was I ever lucky the other lady wasn't there. She always charges too much. At this rate they were a steal though Woo-hoo! One is Maxim Gorky. The others are Leon Kubrin, Mendele something - I forget, and six volumes by Moishe Nadir. No I never heard of him either. I just doubled my collection of Yiddish books in one day. I studied Yiddish at the Worker's Circle in Brookline a little bit, but I'm not really on the level of these books yet. Hopefully one day I'll really be able to read them.



Maybe you're thinking, but what about 8-tracks? Well I got 5 excellent jazz 8-tracks at Diskovery for $15.
The women who runs it, Yolanda, is very nice to me. She had them marked $21, but she always gives me a deal. Here's what I got:
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers w/ Sabu John HandyIII - Messages
The Herbie Mann - Maynard Ferguson Years
Dinah Washington - The Queen of the Blues
The Lester Young Story Vol.4 - Lester Leaps In
and also a non- jazz one called
Murray the"K" Live "As it Happened"
What or who was Murray the "K"?
More topics for our research here at the 8-Track Museum.